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Naveen Kumar Pagidimarri wrote:

>         tell me the source where i can get the information about the
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>       data structures/related system calls used for the
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>   implementation of the ps command.

The ps command probably reads ALL or most of the info it needs from the /proc
directory.  The proc filesystem is a virtual filesystem implemented by the
kernel.